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UK: Imam at Manchester jihad mass murderer’s mosque called for armed jihad before the massacre

Aug 17, 2018 9:05 am By Robert Spencer

The Daily Mail reports this, and then vilifies foes of jihad mass murder. That’s just one indication of why shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain is in the fix it’s in.

“Imam at Didsbury mosque where Manchester bomber and his family worshipped was recorded ‘calling for armed jihad’ in sermon six months before deadly attack,” by Zoie O’brien and Nic White, Mailonline, August 17, 2018:

An imam at the mosque where Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi and his family prayed was delivered a sermon calling for jihad.

Mustafa Graf encouraged followers to ‘take action’ at the Didsbury Mosque in Manchester on December 16, 2016.

That was just six months before Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb killing 22 at an Ariana Grande concert in the city.

It is unclear whether Abedi or any of his family attended the mosque on the day of the sermon, but he bought a ticket for the Ariana Grande concert 10 days later.

Delivering the sermon about the suffering in Syria, the Imam called jihad – which often means waging holy war – a ‘source of pride and dignity’, according to the BBC.

The sermon delivered at the time of a bombing of Aleppo, includes prayers for ‘Mujahideen’ – a term used for a group fighting armed jihad abroad.

‘We ask Allah to grant them Mujahideen – our brothers and sisters right now in Aleppo and Syria and Iraq – to grant them victory’, he says.

‘Jihad for the sake of Allah is the source of pride and dignity for this nation’.

In another passage he says ‘now it is time to act and do something’.

‘Brothers and sisters, it is time to act, not only to talk… Lots of borthers stay behind unfortunately, they love Islam and Muslims but they do nothing about the support of their brothers and sisters,’ he said.

Graf criticised Europe, America and the ‘so-called civilised world’ for watching on as the war ravaged Syria.

‘They know that Iran, Russia and the militias are killing humans in Syria and they do nothing. Well in fact they helped Iranian, Russian and others to kill Muslims over there,’ he said.

Abedi and his family regularly attended the mosque and his father sometimes led the call to prayer.

In the days after the attack Graf came out an assured the public the mosque did not back the views of Abedi.

He posted on Facebook: ‘As a community we have lost many hundreds of people who bravely fought and defeated Isis in Sirte, Libya, only a few months ago, and so we are affected by grief again.’

However, two Muslim scholars said they both believe the language of the sermon represents a call for armed jihad.

‘He’s giving them the narrative of them against us’, Islamic scholar Shaykh Rehan told BBC News.

‘The jihad he’s referring to here is actually being on the battlefield, there’s no if’s and no buts in this’.

‘He is psychologically and practically brainwashing young people into either travelling or to do something to take action.’…

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Filed Under: Featured, Jihad in the West, mosques, Muslim clerics, United Kingdom Tagged With: Didsbury Mosque, Manchester, Mustafa Graf, Salman Abedi


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  1. mortimer says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 9:16 am

    Mustafa Graf encouraged followers to ‘take action’ at the Didsbury Mosque … but obviously in the mind of SPONTANEOUS, UNREAD, UNSTUDIED ISLAM EXPERTS at the Daily Mail, the problem is not in the FOUNATIONAL, PRIMARY ISLAMIC SOURCE TEXTS which clearly teach bigoted warfare against disbelievers, but they ASSUME the REAL problem is coming from people who have READ and STUDIED the PRIMARY SOURCE TEXTS of Islam and who have the BAD TASTE to state the obvious, namely, that Islam has a central teaching of POLITICAL STRUGGLE AGAINST DISBELIEVERS for the purpose of IMPOSING DISCRIMINATORY SHARIA LAW OVER THEM and the ENTIRE WORLD.

    Daily Mail thinks it is BAD TASTE to read Islam’s PRIMARY SOURCE TEXTS and become WELL-INFORMED on the CENTRAL POLITICAL AGENDA of Islam.

    UK political policy SHOULD NOT be developed on the basis of what is considered GOOD TASTE.

    Koran 8.60 “TURHIBUNNA” (terrorise them) … is more than ‘bad taste’ … K. 8.60 is a DEATH THREAT to all disbelievers.

    • Andy says

      Aug 17, 2018 at 12:14 pm

      ALLAH IS GAY!!!

      • Andy says

        Aug 17, 2018 at 1:04 pm

        STOP APPEASING ISLAM!!!!

        It is just going to get worse and worse and worse.

        STOP IT! Study your history and remember it. If you don’t learn from it you are going to REPEAT IT!

        Judeo-Christian Heritage Nation People your Civilization is under attack. Grow a BLOODY SPINE for God Sake!

        “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

        Churchill & Truths of Appeasement

        • Andy says

          Aug 17, 2018 at 4:41 pm

          The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill.

          oh sorry, I mean

          The Continuing Story of Boris And The Burka

        • Andy says

          Aug 18, 2018 at 12:38 am

    • Clive Stephen Delmonte says

      Aug 18, 2018 at 2:08 am

      Spot on, Mortimer !

    • Tonio Rosenblun says

      Aug 18, 2018 at 4:23 pm

      absolutely RIGHT. bUT MOST OF THEIR SUPPORTES IN THE WEST NEVER READ THE DMNED BOOK. tHEY THINK THEY ARE HUMANS….BUT DUE TO THEIR UPBRINGING AND THE HAVING MERRIED FOR TOO MANY YEARS THEIR OWN FIRST COUSINS( INBREEDING) THEY NEVER EVOLVED TO HOMO SAPIENS. aT THE VERY MOS, HOMO ERECTUS.

  2. infidel says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 9:18 am

    Rogue Muslim corporator thrashed in India for disrespecting dead Indian former PM..

    • infidel says

      Aug 17, 2018 at 9:23 am

      FYI: Just yesterday the former and well respected nationalist patriotic ex-PM of India Atal Behari Bajpayee passed away and the people wanted to hold a small condolence meeting as a mark of respect to this leader. But this Muslim corporator opposed it in the usual manner of his people opposing anything patriotic. Also, most Muslims in India also HATE the current PM Modi because he is also very nationalistic and a patriot, Muslims hate patriotic people because they hate passion towards anything else than their Allah..

  3. No Muzzies Here says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 9:21 am

    They always tell us what they plan to do. Might seem silly for mass murderers to tell everyone what their plans are, but this is different. The political class and their willing acolytes in the media ignore those plans and keep them out of print. After the plans are carried out, the media never traces the events back to the original threats, and so the mass murderers are free to make other pronouncements and to carry out other mass murders.
    And the public goes on its merry way, ignorantly chasing banality after banality.

  4. StellaSaidSo says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 9:24 am

    Studies (eg Undercover Mosque, Yerushalmi & Kedar) consistently show that 80% of mosques in Western countries promote violent jihad against non-believers. It is no coincidence that the majority of mosques in the West are funded by Saudi Arabia.

    http://mappingsharia.com/

    • Terry Gain says

      Aug 17, 2018 at 11:27 am

      Yes. KSA is the biggest state sponsor of Jihad and therefore the biggest enemy of peace and freedom. This is why I celebrate when the blind squirrel Trudeau inadvertently finds an acorn and provokes the evil Saudis into revealing themselves for the barbarians they are.

    • PRCS says

      Aug 17, 2018 at 12:51 pm

      “mosques in Western countries promote violent jihad”

      That’s what Islam teaches, and if a cleric’s “Flock” didn’t want to hear it–they’d stand up and tell their cleric to stop that.

      More than a few covertly recorded sermons (some made at mosques right here in the good ‘ole USA) demonstrate that they either DO want to hear it or that they fear the consequences of doing so.

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Aug 17, 2018 at 3:32 pm

      Thanks for the link, Stella!

      Those mosques need to be shut down, and their imams deported. How is that not obvious to everyone? These are violence-prone traitors in our midst.

      Saudi Arabia — a country that does not even allow Christians & other non-Muslims to practice their faith openly — should not be allowed to donate ANY money for the building or support of mosques in the West. How is that not obvious to every political “leader” in the West?

      The U.S. & other civilized nations should stop doing business with Saudi Arabia, entirely. The fact that we buy their rancid oil, and sell them advanced weaponry, to keep their thousands of spoiled, corrupt princes in power, is outrageous. The Saudis are misogynistic barbarians living in the 7th Century, and actively promoting a 7th Century worldview throughout the West. They are the enemy. Let’s start treating them as enemies. Let’s insist that our governments do.

      And, for the love of God, let’s get serious about developing alternative energy sources (hydrogen fuel cell technology & infrastructure in particular), so that no one has to buy oil or natural gas from any Muslim nation, ever. We should turn our hatred for Islam into effective ACTION by promoting the development of alternative energy. Aside from putting a stop to Muslim immigration and deporting Muslims en masse (which we also need to accomplish, ASAP), that is the most effective thing we can do to safeguard the West from the encroachment of Islam. And it’s the single most effective way to weaken the Muslim world, permanently. Destroy that massive Muslim money machine, and they will soon revert to being goat herders and carpet sellers without the financial resources to export terrorism, build mosques in the West, or develop nuclear weapons — and without the ability to buy politicians and subvert universities in the West.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 17, 2018 at 6:26 pm

      True, Stella, Terry, PRCS, and Savvy Kafir.

  5. Tom says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 10:43 am

    It is the result that qualifies the intent. The intent of the Imam was clear, according to what is reported here, and his call for jihad and for action, not just words, from those left behind, presumably in the UK, resulted in one (or more) of his mosque brothers scheming to get into action through jihad against those who were fighting his brothers in Syria.

    To dismiss these two events as coincidence or completely unrelated is wilfull blindness by the authorities.

    War is deceit, and many in Islam have become very good at controlling the narrative after a jihad attack in the UK and elsewhere in the west, to make the perpetrators and their supporters look like victims also.

  6. Phil Copson says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 10:58 am

    From the interior shot, this mosque was plainly built as a Christian church. Which one, I don’t know but an on-line account blandly tells the world the this area was “once known for it’s large Jewish population.”…..

    Seth – The secretary of the mosque – assures the interviewer that all are welcome, “as we all worship the same Almighty God.” No, Seth – we don’t; there isn’t, and never was, any such person as “Allah”, and even if there was, he was not remotely like the Christian God.

    Seth and his friends worship a 7th Century savage, and it as wrong for a church to be turned into a mosque – where the teachings of Christ are explicitly denied, and the supremacy of islam over all people is taught – as it would be to convert a hospital into a torture chamber.

    • Terry Gain says

      Aug 17, 2018 at 11:35 am

      Yes. Our God sent his Son to die for our sins. According to the Koran, the Muslim God, Allah, assisted Christ in faking his death on the cross. The Koran thus blasphemes both Allah and Christ as deceivers. Clearly not the same God.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 17, 2018 at 7:01 pm

        There is an especially ugly twist to the Muslim story, as well–“Jesus”–really, “Isa”–did not just make it appear that he was crucified. He forced some poor nameless victim to die in his place. *Ugh*.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 11:50 am

    That brutal and heinous jihadist /Muslim in the city of Manchester, England who murderous so many young girls coming out of the concert as completely demonic and murderous in his deluded and wicked Islamic quest of the jihad This his vicious suicide /homicide jihad bombing attack against those young people was actually behaving in accord to the instruction of the “holy book “ of Islam, the Quran. Which instructs in for example Sura 9:111. “The believer’s fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain they kill and are killed.” After that murderous jihadist died he had discovered, to his shock and horror, the promise of a paradise with many houris , as the Quran teaches 44:54. 55:56. 78:31., for the dead jihadist was an outright lie and a total falsehood . For that Muslim terrorist found this out the hard way because after he dies he found himself trapped and suffering in the fires of hell .Such as the Bible describes in for example, Luke 13:28. 16:19-31.The Bible also teaches that a murderer “shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21.[K.J.V.] Furthermore, in the Bible book of Revelation in 21:8 it gives a list of the people who will end up terribly suffering without end . As in forever in that awful place , and one of those persons in that Lake of Fire are people on that list who are murderers. In short, that murderous jihadist is the real loser and he now understand that he was wrong. Very wrong and that he had committed the evil of mass murder because he place his faith in a false religion.

    Furthermore, that heinous wicked Islamic terrorist bombing in the city of Manchester, England is based on the “holy book” of Islam the Quran . As such brutal, vicious deadly violence is sanction and taught in the Quran. As found in, for example, Sura 5:33. 9:5, 111,123. 47:4. There are some naive Westerners who might be shocked to find this out and the wonder and then ask “Just who can those jihad –minded Muslim being so very religious ,also be so extremely heartless ,unfeeling, brutal and murderous to kill as to murder all those girls coming out of that concert in Manchester ?” The answer that question is found in the Bible. For the Bible reveals there are some men who are so very cold, callous and dangerous because they have had “their conscience seared with a hot iron” First Timothy 4:2. [K.J.V.] The “hot iron” in this case is Islam.

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 11:54 am

    That hideous and evil Islamic terrorist bombing in the city in Manchester was totally evil. This not as some claim a result of a “hijacked Islam” but actual violent Quran based jihad Islam. This Muslim suicide /homicide bombing is on the Quran as ,for example , in Sura 9:111 it teaches “The believers fight in Allah’s cause they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed…” Furthermore, in Sura 47:4. it also instructs “Whenever you encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…” Let’s face it , setting off a bomb murdering young are who are not Muslims is a very effective way to “make greater slaughter among them.” In conclusion, the religion of Islam is actually a death cult.

    In addition,that murderous jihad terror attack at the concert at Manchester totally cruel and despicable. This heinous Islamic of mass murder is so extremely evil , so evil , in fact, this is mass murdering of young people ,most of them girls also has a strong vicious element of misogyny to it. Misogyny, as most informed people do understand, is very much part of the essence of Islam. Along with the brutal deadly violence of this religion. This Muslim /terrorist bombing is not as some claim as result of a warped version of Islam but hard core non-watered down Quran based Islam. For example, the Quran instructs in Sura 9:123 “O you who believe ! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you…” It’s thus very easy for a jihad minded Muslim show harshness to young girls who are not Muslims by exploding and bomb .This sure can be harsh This wicked action was the outcome of the deadly cruel religion which is Islam.

  9. Notmoron says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 2:20 pm

    Once again the MSM got it wrong. This man was called a “moderate imam “

  10. No Muzzies Here says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 3:54 pm

    Two stories, side by side. The Daily Mail saying “He’s quiet, kind, it’s just an accident” and the imam in Manchester calling for armed jihad before the massacre.

    They tell us what they’re going to do, and the dhimmi media covers up for them. Every time.

  11. DHazard says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 4:03 pm

    “‘Jihad for the sake of Allah is the source of pride and dignity for this nation.” Imam’s are always talking about the “nation” of Islam. Everyone knows there is no “nation” of Islam but nobody cares because we all expect Muslims to lie. Lies built upon fairy tales built upon manipulation built upon the frustration of hundreds of years of failure built on the blame always laid at the feet of the kaffir built upon a con job.

  12. DHazard says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 4:08 pm

    Just another moderate Muslim who enjoins young men to murder in the name of Allah. He didn’t even have to get his hands dirty. Publicly he denies involvement. Privately he celebrates.

    • Indiana Tom says

      Aug 17, 2018 at 5:26 pm

      He is happy that he can find other stupid people to do his dirty work.

  13. Indiana Tom says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 5:30 pm

    Brothers and sisters, it is time to act, not only to talk… Lots of brothers stay behind unfortunately, they love Islam and Muslims but they do nothing about the support of their brothers and sisters,’ he said.
    Including him.
    Hmmm…this is very dangerous….you go first.

    • Indiana Tom says

      Aug 17, 2018 at 5:33 pm

  14. gravenimage says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 6:13 pm

    UK: Imam at Manchester jihad mass murderer’s mosque called for armed jihad before the massacre
    ……………………

    This Mosque should be shut down and the Imam prosecuted and them deported if possible.

    Notice, too, that this Mosque is almost certainly a Church the Mohammedans have taken over.

  15. Buzz says

    Aug 17, 2018 at 7:09 pm

    The Brits have all but given over London to the Muslims. If they don’t start fighting back and run the Muslims out of the UK, they will lose the rest of the country as well.

  16. Joe says

    Aug 18, 2018 at 5:12 am

    The Imam is complaining about Syria, but the war in Syria was preceded with Friday riots. What happens on Friday that would cause riots? The riots would always start right after the Muslims left the Mosque. So Islam started the Syrian war, and the Imam is bringing it to England.

    There is even more collusion. Before the war started in Syria, the Obama administration was sending weapons from Libya to Syria which is why we had the illegal mission in Benghazi where the ambassador was killed.

    How did both Obama administration and the Syrian mosques anticipate the Syrian war which led to the invasion of Europe? This seems to be a pretty deep rabbit hole.

  17. libertyORdeath says

    Aug 18, 2018 at 3:54 pm

    Even the BBC cannot keep denying that the so called “moderate” muslims in the UK are poisonous to the entire population.

  18. John Little says

    Aug 18, 2018 at 4:34 pm

    This Imam also personnally fought for an al Qaeda affliated Islamist group in Libya in 2011.
    The BBC News piece showed Graf as a uniformed islamic fighter working as an ammunition loader on a tank.

    Corbyn would cheer him and dhimmi May will ignore this as an awkward development. The police will sweep it under the carpet.

    Like all UK islamic supremacists, Graf has nothing but contempt for the authorities in this country.

  19. Stephen says

    Aug 20, 2018 at 3:47 am

    It took an army to overcome the Caliphate and so it is inevitable that we will have civil war here unless the government takes action first.

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